A MANUAL FOR THE SICK: IN TWO PARTS. PART 1. AN ADDRESS TO THE SICK. PART it. MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK, SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, A MANUAL FOR THE SICK: IN TWO PARTS. PART I. AN ADDRESS TO THE SICK. PART II. MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK, FOR THE USE OF THE SICK. BY THE REV. SAMUEL HOBSON, LL.B. CURATE OF KIRSTEAD, NORFOLK, SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, [130] 11103 to 7 MY FRIEND, SINCE God hath permitted you to be visited with sickness, you will not, I hope, consider a few minutes ill-employed in reading this little tract. It is written with a sincere desire to render you some small service during your present affliction. I know how tedious are the hours, and how lengthened appear the days and nights to those, whom it hath pleased the Almighty to visit with such painful dispensations, and I am therefore anxious to do what in me lies towards lightening your sorrows, and rendering your condition less irksome. may seem strange to some persons that a God of love, whose mercy, it is declared, extends over all his works, should allow pain, and sickness, and sorrow to afflict the children of men; but, even if we knew no reason for this, we ought not to charge God foolishly,” but to impute it to our blindness and ignorance that we can neither clearly see, nor fully comprehend, the meaning of His dispensations. We It |